Pocket cigarette-making machine.



D. A. GARWOOD.

POCKET CIGARETTE MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILED NOV. 1, 1912.

Patentd Feb. 17, 1914,

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POCKET CIGARETTE-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

Application filed November 1, 1912. Serial No. 729,062.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DONN A. GARwooD,

a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Pocket Cigarette-Making Machine,-of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket cigarette making machines in which v the tobacco is rolled in a traveling cloth or rubber apron revolving over rollers and operated by the thumbs and fingers to wrap the paper around the tobacco and the objects of my improvements are, first, to prevent short cut tobacco from dropping out of the machine as the cigarette is being rolled; and second, to afford facilities for making cigarettes of various sizes. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device closed, the dotted lines representing the position of the operators thumbs and fingers in manipulating the device. Fig. 2, 1s a transverse vertical section through the device opened into tobacco receiving position;

Fig. 3, is a similar view of the same closed, and Fig. 4, is a sectional detail of the parts at one end of the adjustable roller.

Referring to the drawings, the frame of the device comprises two pairs of hinged plates '2, 4, having a common hinge rod 6, the plates 2 being further connected by a rod 8 and the plates 4 by a rod 10. The

plates 2 are pivoted on the hinge rod 6 inside the plates 4 and provided with lugs 12 to limit the movement of said plates toward each other. The plates 2 are also provided with extensions 14 which overlap the inner sides of plates 4 to form guards for preventing the escape of tobacco from the ends of the device when the same is open. Between the upper ends of each pair of plates 2, 2, and 4, 4,respectively, is mounted a roller 16, over which is received a web or apron 18,'the latter being also passed around an adjustable roller 20 carried by the plates 2. This third roller 20 is for the purpose of providing varying de rees of slackness in the apron 18, and is a j'usted along slots 22 in the plates 2 by means of clamp nuts 24 and studs 26, the latter having bores 28 for journaling the trunnions 80 of the roller 20 In operation the roller 20 is adjusted to give the proper degree of slack for producing the size of cigarette desired, and the rollers 16 are spread, as shown in Fig. 2, for introducing tobacco 32 to the pocket portion of the apron depending between said rollers, the extensions 14 preventing any of the tobacco from escaping over the edges of the apron. The devlce is then closed, as shown in Fig. 3, which squeezes the filled portion of the apron down below the rollers 16 against. the adjacent underlying fold of the apron. The rollers and apron may then be manipulated to roll the tobacco into smooth, compact form by taking hold of the same as illustrated in Fig. 1 and exerting a pull on the apron in one direction or the other. The paper is then introduced between the rollers 16 and the continued, movement of the apron rolls the paper around the tobacco after which the paper may be sealed in any suitable manner.

From the foregoing it will be ap arent that I have devised a simple and e cient means for carrying out the objects of the in vention, and'while I have illustrated the preferred form of the same, it is to be understood that I reserve the right to such changes as may fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A cigarette rollin device, comprising two pairs of hinged p ates, a pair of rollers carried by said plates and movable toward and from each other, an endless apron operating around said rollers, each of said pairs of plates being provided with an extension for spanning the space between said. rollers when the same are spread, a third roller carried by a pair of said plates within the apron in position to engage the same, and means whereby said third roller may be adjusted to vary the slackness in said apron.

DONN A. GARWOOD.

Witnesses:

C. A. BLUME, W. M. DUNLAP. 

